The Sun. — London, England, 1864-09-29 00:00:00

AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 28. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Germania, from New York on the 17th inst., has arrived here. She brings 144 passengers for this port, Hamburg, and Havre, 35 sacks of mails for London, and 10 for France. She does not bring any specie. Her news has been anticipated by the Belgian and City of Washington. No events of importance are reported from the Army of the Potomac. Some heavy artillery firing had occurred in front of the 9th Corps, but the re sults were unimportant. Reinforcements were arriving at City Point in large E quads, and although many regiments were leaving (their terms of service having expired) the strength of the army was being materially increased. Deserters report that the Confederates were making great exertions to in crease the force under Lee; reinforcements were coming in from several quarters, and a rigid con scription was being enforced. Although the reports that Lee is about to make a general assault on Grant's position are hardly sustained by recent de velopments, it nevertheless is generally admitted that the opposing hosts are being prepared for a terrible struggle, which cannot be long deferred, and which it is believed will prove the decisive battle of the war. General Grant is said to have passed through Baltimore en route for Washington yesterday. The Richmond Examiner thinks that the Federal authorities will make a tremendous effort to secure a military success in Virginia before the presiden.l tial election in November, No change has occurred in the military situation in the Shenandoah Valley sinee the Bth inst. Early still holds a strongly entrenched position at Win. chester, though it is believed that a portion of his army has been sent to Lee. Averill, with a large force of Federal cavalry, has reoccupied Martins burg, On the morning of the 7th inst. General Sheridan sent Getty's division of the 6th Corps and two brie gades of cavalry to Opequan Creek to develop Early's strength. Four Confederate divisions were discovered on the west bank of the creek, and another division (Renshaw's), holding a detached position, was charged upon by the Federal cavalry, and the Bth South Carolina Regiment, numbering 16 officers and 145 men, was captured. The pri. soners were found to be well clothed and equipped. They represent Early's commissariat to be in excellent condition, The object of the reconnais sance having been accomplished, the Federal forces returned to the main army, having sustained but slight loss. Southern journals furnish the latest intelligence received by the public from the seat of war in Georgia. General Hood announces that Wheeler had destroyed the bridges on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railway and 50 miles of the Tennessee and Alabama road. He also claims that Wheeler has been successful in every engagement, and that his force had not been routed, as was reported, by Rosseau, The Confederate pickets extended six miles north of Jonesboro' on the 10th inst, The railroad between Jonesboro, and East Point had been thoroughly destroyed by the Federals. Hood's troops are reported to be in good spirits, and to be in daily expectation of the arrival of rein. forcements, under Polignac, from_Kirby Smith, General Sherman had issued an order requiring all white citizens of Atlanta, male and female, to leave the city and proceed with their movable pro perty North or South. To those taking the oath of allegiance, transportation would be furnished as far North as Chattanooga, and to those refusing the oath transportation South would be furnished as far as Rough and Ready. Sherman sent a flag of truce to Hood communi cating this order, and requesting an armistice of ten days to enable the citizens wishing to go South to do so in safety. General Hood assented to the ar mistice, but denounced the measure as barbarous. In a letter to General Sherman, on the 9Lb, he says:-- " Permit me to say that the unprecedented measure you propose transcends in studied and iniquitous cruelty all acts ever brought to my attention in the dark history of this war. In the name of God and of humanity, I protest against it, believing that you are expelling from their homes and firesides the wives and children of a brave people." General Hood writes to Major Calhoun of Macon —" I shall do all in my power to mitigate the ter rible hardships and misery that must be brought upon your people by the extraordinary order of the Federal commander." General Sherman's letter to Hood has not been published. The Richmond journals denounce Sherman in very severe terms. The Sentinel calls him " the chief among savages and the foremost villain of the world." Richmond papers report a heavy bombardment of Charleston and Fort Sumter on the 11th, but no casualties. Six hundred Federal prisoners were quartered in that part of the city most visited by the Federal shells ; and General Foster, in retaliation, had placed a like number of Confederates under the ConfQderate fire on Morris Island. Confederate accounts claim that Morgan's force was not routed, as was reported by General Gillem, and that they were cot even engaged, General Morgan having been surprised while away from his command. Colonel Basil Duke is appointed Mor gan's successor. General Smith had ordered all negroes in his department to be enrol'ed for such service in the al my as the Confederate Congress authorises. It is reported that four of Farragut's vessels have succeeded in getting over the obstructions on the Dog River Bar, and reaching a position from whence they can throw shell into the city of .Molaile. The Confederates still had in front of the city three ironclad rams—the Tuscaloosa, the Ala bama, and the National —besides one gunboat, the Morgan. These vessels make no demonstration, but are known to be fully manned. Granger's po sition at Cedar Point has been strongly entrenched, and will be held as a base for future operations against the city, although it is believed that no attack will be made at present. It is even inti mated that Farragut is abDut to withdraw his fleet to participate in a meditated attack upon Wil mington, N.C. Gen. Richard Taylor had assumed command of the Confederate forces in Alabama. Louisiana advicea report Shelley with a large force advancing into South-eastern Missouri, and that the Federal forces under Gen. A. S. Smith had been sent to oppose him. Price (recently killed by the newspapers) is advancing into Western Missouri to attack Springfield, with 5,000 cavalry. Kirby Smith has assigned Magruder to the command of Arkansas, Buckner to Louisiana, and Walker to Texas and Arizona. has already been published, but we append addi tional details. The ex-Confederate cruiser Georgia, 71 ich was captured by the F.deral steamer Niagara cff Lis bon, had pot into Fort Monroe harbour somewhat disabled. The nomination of Governor Seymour, of New York, for re-election was made by acclamation, notwithstanding that it was understood the governor did not wish to stand again. The following are the latest despatches from Grant's army : Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, Sept. 13. Picket and artillery firing has been kept up very brisk since Saturday, the fire of the rebels not seeming to have cooled yet. Yesterday a large mortar threw a number Of shells into Petersburg. Deserters report that Lee announced on Saturday that he would give the Yankees 14 days to get away. They represent that they have been living on short rations of poor quality. The New York World's special correspondent, dating from Grant's headquarters on the 15th, says : There is every reason to believe that the rebels have in contemplation and are already preparing for the evacuation of Petersburg, and retiring their armies within the defences of Richmond. This may account for the protracted quiet in our front since their failure to regain the position of the Weldon Railway recently captured by us. There has been considerable firing along a portion of the line to-day, but without results of any moment on either side. The wea ther is uncomfortably cool. There is a large number of ague and fever patients in the hospitals, but the disease yields readily to medical treatment. Intelligence from Fort Monroe of the 15th says that the Federal batteries opened on the enemy on Wednesday, and there has been heavy firing all day to silence the fire of the rebels, who have been for some days annoying the Federal lines, particularly on the left. A Federal captain, who left Libly Prison, Rich mond, Sept. 12, informs the Washington correspon dent of the New York limes that there are 230 Federal.officers imprisoned in Richmond, and 4,500 men. The officers are in Libly and the men all at Belle Isle. The New York, Herald's correspondent with Grant's army says that a party stole out a few nights since, and set fire to the signal station cap tured from the Federala recently, and it was burnt to the ground. It is not worth fighting for, and is now out of the way of contention. The divisions of the 9th Corps have been renum. tiered. The 3d, commanded by Gen. Wilcox, is now the Ist; the 2d, commanded by Gen. Potter, re tains its number; the 4th, composed entirely of coloured troops, and commanded by Gen. Terreo, will in future be known as the 3d. The Washington correspondent of the New York Commercial Advertiser telegraphs as follows on the 16th inst. : No army news has been received by the Government to day, and rumours to the contrary are false. The statement that Farragut's fleet has approached Mobile in line of battle is not believed at the Navy Department, He does not in tend to attack Mobile. Secretary Welles does not approve of the policy of capturing Mobile for the present, the forces being needed elsewhere. The Richmond Sentinel of the 12th has the fol• lowing ; MAnos, Sept. 9.—The prisoners captured yesterday say that Sherman will reinforce Grant to take Richmond and finish the rebellion, They state that part of his army will go out of service this month. The enemy are closely massed about Atlanta. There is not the slightest prospect of an early resumption of hostilities. The Sentinel of the same date has an article on Sherman's depopulation of Atlanta, calliag it an event unparalleled in the American war, and with out an example in modern times. " Sherman," it says, " has given the war a new feature. Stern as it has been, it is henceforth to be more stern ; and, terrible as it has been, it is henceforth to be more so. The people are ready, if the President wants us. Let him call for us—no matter about age. Now, if this be the kind of warfare we dare to resist, we will strip to fight; better for halting age or lisping innocence to die in defence of their homes than to be driven out in herds to languish in exile. The last man and the last boy among us must take his musket sooner than endure such outrages as at Atlanta." General Foster had ordered a draft of all able bodied coloured citizens in his department in North Carolina. The election i❑ Louisiana had gone favourably for the Union ticket. The blockade runner Elsie had been captured by the steamer Keystone State, and sent into Beau fort. The prize steamer Vance had arrived at New York. The New York papers of the 15th contain the following official despatches of General Grant and General Sherman in respect to the draft : City Point, Sept. 13, 10 a.m. Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War. We ought to have the whole number of men called for by the President in the shortest possible time. Prompt action in filling our armies will have more effect upon tree enemy than a victory over them. They profess to believes and make their men believe, there is such a party North in favour of recognising Southern independence that the draft cannot be enforced. Let them be undeceived. Deserters come into our lines daily, who tell us that the men are nearly universally tired of the war, and that desertion would be much more frequent but they believe peace will be negotiated after the fall election. The enforcement of the draft and prompt filling up of our armies will save the shedding of blood to an immense degree. 11. S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General. Atlanta, Georgia, Sept. 13. Hon. E. M, Stanton,—l am very glad to hear the draft will be enforced. First, we need the men ; second, they come as privates to fill up our eld and tried regiments with their experienced officers already on hand ; and, third, because the enforcement of the law will tnanites' a power resident in our Government equal to the occasion. Our Government, though a democracy, should in time of trouble and danger bo able to wield the power of a great nation. All well. W. P. SHERMAN, Major-General. The following has been issued by Mr. Stanton : The draft is ordered to commence in all the States and districts where the quota is not filled by volunteers onMon day, the 19th, and will go on till completed. Volunteers and substitutes will be received and credited to as late a period as possible. Volunteering is still progressing with vigour in moat of the States, No reports of active opera tions have been received from other commands. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. The following is a summary of Sherman's letter to Hood in respect to the evacuation of Atlanta:— All citizens are required to leave Atlanta, and proceed either South or North. The Government will furnish trans portation south as far as Rough and Ready, and north as far as Chattanooga. All citizens may take moveable pro perty with them ; transportation will be furnished for all moveables. Negroes who wish may go with their masters ; the other male negroes will be put in the employ of the United States Government. Negro women and children will be sent out of the lines. The cotton crops are said to be almost a failure in Louisiana from the ravages of the worm, which has made its appearance as high up as Vicksburg. It is reported that a plan has been submitted to the President and Secretary of War for establishing two camps of instruction for coloured soldiers, who shall be duly instructed by experienced and competent officers before being put into the field. This proposition meets with much favour from both regular and volunteer army officers, as it is thought by thus collecting this force a reserve could always be depended upon for garrison and other duties. The Richmond journals contain reports of a very destructive fire in Manchester, Virginia. Gilmore's large warehouse was burnt with 1,370 hhds. of tobacco, belonging to John Gilmore and Co., and 231 hhds. belonging to the Confederate States. The Messrs. Grey's warehouse was also destroyed, with other valuable property. To►al loss, 4,100,000 dole. The Steamer Sacrament sailed from San Fran cisco for Panama on the 13th with 825,324 dole. in gold. Secretary Stanton has ordered the draft to take place in all districts whose quotas remain unfilled on the 19th of September. He also transmits copies of letters received from Generals Grant and Sherman in favour of an immediate enforcement of the conscription. Gen. Grant's letter states that the Confederates profess to believe that there is a party in the North in favour of recognising South ern independence, and that the draft cannot be enforced. Gen. Grant writes that in this they must be undeceived. His letter concludes—" The en• forcement of the draft and the prompt filling up of_ our armi es w ill save bloodshed to an immense 4 egree." Sherman's letter expresses satisfaction that the d ra f t i s to be enforced, because the men are seeded, and because—" The enforcement of the law will manifest a resident power in the Government, which, though a democracy, should in times of trouble and cl ang , great nation.' rbe able to wield the power of a Secretary Seward, in an address to th e "Li nco l n Association of Washington,,' recently said :—" The Democracy at Chicago, after waiting iting six wee k s t o Union see whether the war f or the is to su ccee d or fail, finally concluded that itw a nomination fail ; and therefore they went in for nc essation of form to make the fact a sure thi ng and plat. by a hostilities and an abandonment of the contest." LIVERPOOL, Sept. 28. The Canadian steamer Belgian arrived here this morning, with Canadian journals of the 17th, and American of the 16th inst, A Synopsis of her news, received via Greencastle, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1864. CANADA. It is said that Lord Lyons, the British Ambas• sador at Washington, will shortly pay another visit to Canada. _ _ Mr. Goldwin Smith, professor of modern history at Oxford, was on a tour throughout the provinces. The remainder of the Scots Fusilier Guards had arrived at Quebec from Montreal, and immediately embarked on board her Majesty's troopship li rgent, which sailed the same evening. The Quebec Daily N ews sa y s : It appears, from accounts received here, that destitution threatens the inhabitants of the Labrador coast this winter. Efforts arc, . patch one of the provincial steamers with a supply of pro visions, to be dispensed during the winter as the necessities of the people require. Private individuals are making collections aad sending donations of flour, Sco. Cotton Supply Association, At the usual weekly meeting of the executive committee, held on Tuesday, a letter was read from Natal, enclosing a sample of cotton grown from Egyptian seed, planted on the first rising land from the coast, about ten miles from the seaboard, and which was valued at 24d. per lb. The writer, who was engaged for many years in growing cotton in the Southern States, and more recently in Natal, expects shortly to be in England, and offsrs his services to any parties engaged in cotton cultiva tion, and willing to go out to any country where they could be made available, A letter was received forwarding a sample of cotton from Asia Minor, brought by a gentleman from India, who has paid considerable attention to the growth of cotton, and who is able to give further information respecting the locality from which it was procured. A letter was read from the India-office, containing copies of despatches received from the government of Madras relative to the cultivation of Peruvian cotton in the Kistna and Salem districts of that presidency. Samples of the cotton were also received, and valued at 23d. per lb. It is said to require artificial irri gation when young in every case, and probably also when fully grown, except in a moist climate. It seems peculiarly liable to be attacked by insects, and as the crop is not matured in any one month, but spreads over a great length of time, it is in danger of being spoiled by rain or unfavourable weather. The staple is longer and finer than that of the country cotton. Further experiments are in progress, the result of which will be communicated. A small sample of cotton grown in Mazagan from Sea Island seed was valued at 27d. per lb. Con sular reports were received from the Foreign office on the cultivation of cotton in the districts of Cyprus, Sidon, Caiffa and Acre, Jerusalem, Brussa, Morocco, Pernambuco, and Venezuela. In the Island of Cyprus, 16,460 acres were planted with cotton in 1863, and 22,000 acres in 1864, and the produce, which amounted to 2,200,0001 b in the former, is expected to 3,000,0001 b in the present year, Wages and rentals have risen fully 100 per cent,, but should they return to rates current previous to this season, 6d per lb would be a remunerative price. The cotton has usually gone to Marseilles and Trieste, but now England receives a portion. The weather has been propitious, and the crops promise to be abundant and good. In creased means of irrigation are needed, and larger supplies of American seed would prove highly ad vantageous. In the vice consular district of Sidon the area planted with cotton has increased from 1,000 acres in 1863 to 7,000 acres in 1864, and the produce, which amounted from 30,000 to 35,0001 b in the former, is estimated at from 300,0001 b to 350,0001 b in the present year. One half of that grown is consumed in the country, and the remain der is exported chiefly to France. Under ordinary circumstances 8d per lb would be remunerative. The present crop owing to late springs is unusually promising. The chief hindrance is the opposition of the Turkish authorities to the enterprise of fo reigners desirous of engaging in agriculture, whilst the natives seem incapable by themselves of intro. ducing necessary improvements. In the districts of Caiffa and Acre 4,100 acres were planted with cot ton its 1853 and 16,000 in 1864, and the produce, which in the former was 1,190,0001b5, is expected to be this year 4,300,0001b5. Of this 2-3rds are sent to Marseilles, the rest to Smyrna for transhipment, and but little to England. From 3,id to 4d per lb would be remunerative in ordinary times. The state of the crops is all that could be desired, except ia the narrow maritime plain commencing from the promontory of Carmel, and running ten or fif teen miles south, where the general opinion is that only one-third of the crop will come to maturity. The soil is a rich friable loam, produc ing heavy crops of wheat. It is not probable that there will be increased production in future years if present prices decline. Egyptian seed appears to do well, and if the anticipated results are realised the prejudice prevailing against exotic seed will be removed. The primitive state of agriculture, the local maladministration of government, and the law preventing Europeans from holding landed property are the chief hindrances. In the consular district of Jerusalem little or nothing _is doing in cotton cultivation ; the small quantity grown is from in digenous seed, and of an inferior quality. Her Ma j ::sty's consul at Brussa. in a despatch to Sir H. Buiwer, states that at Balukisser the commissioner had built two extensive we rehouses, each 300 yards square, for a cotton depot, and inclosed a space of 41,500 square yards for a cotton fair, to be opened on Oct. 15, Licences had been given by the Porte for two establishments at Kirkgsgatch for presses and gins to be worked by steam. In the sub-die tricts of Somme, and Kirkgagatch, where the eul tare of cotton is habitual, it had been carried so far that about 700 acres were left free for its extension this year. But in the sub-districts of Balukisser and others it had been more than doubled, extend ing over more than 6,000 acres at Balukisser in lieu of 2,000 acres last year, giving a surplus product in cotton of about 870 bales of 1701 b. each in that particular locality. The commissioner feels assured that if supplied with 40 tons of New Orleans seed at Panorma by March next, he could get the whole of it planted. Achmet Vefyk Effendi, fully appre ciating the great importance of cotton culture, has made its extension a primary objet, and there would be real and vast progress if other function aries of the Porte would, according to their means and influence, devote their energies to the same end and with equal resolution. The vice-consuls at the Moorish ports state there has been a very trifling in crease in the cultivation of cotton iu Morocco. In 1863 there were about 600 acres sown, in 1864 about 2,500 acres, As there are no European residents in the interior, it is difficult to ascertain the extent of land cultivated in the inland districts, but it is not supposed to exceed an additional three or four thousand acres. The present year's crop is expected to be required for native manufacture. The plant thrives in tho districts where it has been sown, and is of good quality. There are vast districts where it could bo profitably cultivated. The Sultan was induced to prohibit the exportation of cotton from the Moorish ports, with the view of checking the agricultural speculation of Europeans, some of whom had taken possession of lands belonging to the Government without the permission of the local authorities, and even without offering to pay rent, whilst others refused to pay land taxes. The Sultan, I though desiring to encourage the cultivation of I cotton, could not do s) when it gave rise to such encroachments on his sovereign rights. The country has not only a climate and soil peculiarly adapted for the cultivation of cotton, but is favourably situated in being within a voyage of four days by steam from England. In the Tangier district no attempt as yet has been made to grow cotton. The soil and climate are not so favourable as the pro vinces on the western coast. The vice-consul re ports that no cotton has been grown at Laroiche. In the province of Pernambuco the extent of land planted with cotton, cannot be well ascertained ; about two tons of exotic seed have been sown this year, and the produce, which was 46,044 bales of 1601 b. each in 1863, is expected to be 120,000 bales this year. The extended growth of cotton has greatly contributed to the prosperity of the pro vince, and has acted most favourably upon every branch of trade. A large proportion of the value of the raw material is returned to the interior in the f o rm of manufactured articles. New experiments are :s1 progress which, if successful, will greatly in crease the extorts. The return from Caracas states nertain that in . v. :4.0s of Venezuela the area planted with cotton had increased from 11,000 acres in 1 1863 to 35,000 acres in 1 64, and that the produce The will be threefold more this yea, than the last. lie a great hind want of labour is represented - hp, Government rance to extended cultivation. 11— imported in 1863 10,000 lb. of Ne w Orleans seed, which was distributed and planted; T the seed from last year's crop has been used this: yes car together with native or Surinam seed. A or.rculat. Was rem ceivel from the Foreigneoffice with mammary of Austrian opinions respecting tho p irojected tariff, Applications for seed were revive , I from Sp ain, _ . POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Sept,. 28, MARLBOROUGH-STREET,—Mr M. C. Rogers, dentist, 18, New Burlington-street, appeared before Mr Tyrwhitt to answer a summons taken out by Mr Tall( salicitor, of Deaconfield, Buckinghamshire, on behalf of the Council of Medical Education and Registration, for wil fully and falsely taking and usingltho name of " surgeon,' implying thereby that he was registered under the Medical Act. Mr Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, appeared on behalf of Mr Rogers. Before the case was gone into MrTyrwhitt inquired if Mr Bearnard, chiropodist, of No. 39, Regent-street, was present. Mr Lewis, jun., replied that he was in court. Mr Tyr whitt said he gave his opinion on the case of Mr Bearnaid last week, and ho then thought that Mr Bear nard was liable to a penalty, and granted a case for the superior courts. Since that time he had found a case which might or might not materially bear on Mr Bearnard's case. He felt, however, that there was so much doubt about the matter that ho should not enforce the penalty of £2O until compelled to do so by mandamus, His own opinion was against Mr Bee rnard. Mr Lewis, sun., said, on looking over the law, he found that it was in a very unsatisfactory state. In the reported case referred to there appeared to be a want of evidence, as there had been in Mr Bearnard's case. Mr Tyrwhitt said ho would not advise Mr Bearnard to alter his plate, and he would recommend Mr Talley to take some advice, and also to consult the council. If Mr Talley chose to take proceedings against Mr Bearnard on some future occasion he would then grant a case. Mr Lewis said ho believed that Mr Talley would admit that Mr Bearnard did not in any way practise as a sur geon. He considered if Mr Talley was well advised that he would not take any further steps in the matter. He saw Mr Bowen May in court, and if that gentleman, who formerly represented the Medical Council, would give Mr Talley proper advice, there would be an end of the pro ceedings. Mr Talley replied that he did not want the advice of any one. Mr Bowen May, as amicus curia, would state that he formerly acted for the Medical Council, and had always felt great difficulty in such cases, as he was unable to prove that persons calling themselves doctors acted as doctors. The summons against Mr Rogers was then called on. Mr Talley said he had given notice that ho had with• drawn the summons against Mr Rogers. Mr Lewis, junior, said, as Mr Rogers had been charged in the summons with " falsely" pretending to be a surgeon, it was of the utmost importance to that gentleman, as it was known in his neighbourhood that he had been summoned, to have an opportunity of stating that he had a diploma as a duly qualified surgeon. Ile had in his hands other certifi • cates to prove that Mr Rogers had passed the hospitals in Paris as a qualified surgeon. The Medical Council had ignored these proceedings against Mr Rogers, stating that they were not taken by their advice nor at their expense. Under these circumstances it was but fair that Mr Rogers should be put to n 5 expense in attending the court, and as Mr Talley had been ordered to pay costs at the Marylebone Police-court, he hoped the magistrate would direct Mr Talley to pay Mr Rogers's costs. He might further state that the reason why Mr Rogers was not on the register was that he only practised as a dentist, and not as a surgeon, though a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. Mr Tyrwhitt said it was perfectly clear that Mr Talley ought to have ascertained whether Mr Rogers was a surgeon and had a diploma before taking proceedings. After seeing Mr Rogers's diploma, it was impossible to doubt that he was a surgeon, and he should therefore order Mr .Galley to pay costs. To summon Mr Rogers was really too bad. The next summons was against Dr Kahn, of Tichborne street, for wilfully and falsely taking and using the name and title of physician, implying that he was registered under the Medical Act. Mr Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared for the defendant, and stated that the summons had never been served on Dr Kahn, who had been absent from Eng land for some time. He must complain of the course taken by Mr Talley in applying for summonses apainst profes• sional men without sufficient grounds for legal proceedings. Mr Talley did not represent the Medical Council, as he pre tended, but had made himself the champion of the medical profession from motives that he could not define. If Mr Talley was only acting as a solicitor in these cases, he should be glad to give the name of his client, in order that parties who were compelled to appear in a court of justice on vexa tious pleas under a stringent Act of Parliament might know against whom would lie their remedy. Mr Talley had asserted in the summons that Dr Kahn had even practised as a physician, whereas he would show that Dr. Kahn was duly qualified under Section Aof the Medical Act. Had he beea in England he would have been fully prepared to meet the allegation. Mr Talley said he represented the woman of England. Mr E. Lewis did not think that most estimable body had a very judicious representative. Evidence having been tendered to prove the non-service of the summeal, :the case was dismissed. MARYLE BONE.—Henry Hamilton, alias Dr Henry Scott, was summoned for a breach of the Medical Act, in having issued advertisements offering to treat the complaints of females, and describing himself as a doctor, when, in truth, he was not a physician. Mr Sleigh, who appeared for the defence, said his client was not guilty of the offence imputed to him. Mr Talley, who had taken out the summons, and who was seated at the solicitors' table, said this was ono cf the most painful cases that ever ho had the honour to present before a magistrate. It was a charge he had against the defendant fur unlawfully, wickedly, and designedly pub lishing in one of the daily papers an advertisement, ad dressed to ladies only, and calling the attention of ladies to it, and he (defendant) represented himself as duly qualified to act as a doctor. no said he could act as such, and led people to believe that ho was duly qualified. In the first place he was certain that defendant was no doctor at all. Females who were in a delicate way were lured to him by means of his advertisements, and (holding up his arm, and bringing his fist down with a thump upon the table) all this done by a man who has been convicted at Newgetc-- Mr Sleigh—Really, sir, I must call on your worship— Mr Talley—Sit you down, sir, and I will wring your heart. A tale that will bring tears from you. (Thump on the table.) _ Mr Sleigh—lt is sadly to be deplored that the valuable time of the court should be taken up by this person. Mr Talley—l am a member of the legal profession of 12 years' standin g. Mr Sleigh—l am sorry that you are. Mr Talloy—Sir,l do not know you. You may be eminent, but I know you not. lam an honourable member of the profession, and you---- ➢lr Sleigh—Don't address yourself to me. (To the ma gis`rate)—l wish to come at once to the case and to the matter at issue. Mr Mansfield (to Mr Talley) —You charge the defendant with a certain offmcc—let us have the evidence upon it. Mr Talky—l will, sir ; but I must tell you that this man has been convicted, Mr Sleigh—There must be a check to this man's conduct. Mr Talley—Sir I Mr Mansfield—Go on with your evidence. Mr Talley—You must listen to me. I can say that this man has been convicted-- Mr Mansfield—Stop, stop; don't talk so. If you can produce evidence about the conviction do so, but do lot us get on. Mr Talley (greatly excited)—Sir, I take up a news paper from my breakfast table, and there wh at do I find ? (Thump on the table.) Why, I find this , that my wifa is invited to pay a visit to 15, Renr:etta-street, Cavendish-square. (Defendant read an advertisement, which had Leen set forth in the summons, and tearing the paper up, explained, "Bah I Horribly disgusted am I that such vipers should be allowed to crawl about. Notice has been given-- Mr Sleigh—Really, sir, it is to me—and I am certain it must be to you—painful to listen to this 1 ersou. Mr Talley (thump)—Sir, you shall listen to me. I will not be put down by you. I will not. (Thump on the table). I have yet to produce to your notice the real Dr Scott, whese name this man filches. This is (the right arm raised on high) one of the most painful cases that I ever had the honour to appear in. The law enacts, and clearly, too, that there is a penalty for any one calling himseif doctor who is not so. (Emphasis.) And, sir, I must ask and de mand of you to commit this man. He gives the public to believe that he is a doctor of medicine. Mr Sleigh—l wish your worship would not allow your time to be wasted in this manner. Mr Talley—l care not who you are— Mr Mansfield—l must stop this. The only thing I have to go into is whether Dr Scott, as you term him, has vio lated the law. Mr Talley here became excitsd in the extreme, and taking up another newspaper tore it into shreds, exclaiming, " I am disgusted I" Mr Mansfield (with great warmth) —I do not know whn you are or what you are. But this I do knew, that you have charged a person with a certain offence. You have made a charge. Produce evidence to substantiate your case if you can. Mr Talley— Substantiate my case I I can, sir, with hosts of witnesses. Mr Mansfield—Will you go on with your case ? I won't have this court of justice made a farce of. Mr Talley—Sir, lam seriou'. I now find I have one of the most eminent members of the bar opposed to me. (Pointing to Mr Sleigh.) Mr Sleigh—l will not have you refer to me. Mr Talley—Won't you ? You must abide it—that I tell you, sir. Sir, Ido net know whether you know me, but I can tell you I have been in the profession 12 years. To prove what I assert ie correct, I have my certificate here, and ready to be produced. Mr Sleigh—l wish you would not waste the time of the court. It is distressing for me to sit here and listen to you. Mr Talley—Sir, 1 am hero as a champion in a just cause, and I defy your powers. Mr Mansfield—l must put a stop to this, and proceed to business. You have preferred a charge that the defendant has done a certain act or deed contrary to the Act of Par liament. You charge him with pretending to be a physician ? ikr- , r,-.11,,,,____T TIT; I 1 air T Irtnir I, vnrii as a fa+har—au n child ehould look to ite parent. I will call before you evi dencc, to convince you (thump on the table) of the way in which the public are imposed upon; and, sir (i hrowing down a book ha had in his hams), I will show you that this ought to be cauterised from-- Mr Sleigh— Oh dear I oh dear ! that the time should be wasted like this I Mr Talley Waked I Time wasted, my learned friend— Mr Sleigh—l wish you would not address me as your friend. I have no wish to know you. Mr Talley—lt is a grievous matter that they come here to qualify their crimes. I will call a gentleman whom I have ordered to be here. There has been a great mistake under the Act, and if such mistakes are allowed to go by uncorrected, then the Act might just as well be null and void. The son ct the late Baron Nicholson might just as well be in your position on this bench. No, sir, we are not to be put down in this way. Under Lord Campbell's Act— Mr Sleigh—He has had at you, sir; now he is going to sh3w that the judges are wrong. Mr Mansfield—We had better go on and see if there is any law in which this can be made an offence, Mr Sleigh—That will be the proper course to adopt, and I humbly submit that on the point of law there is no case made out for me to answer. The statute was never passed to meet any such case as this. The learned counsel ad dressed the court, and was quoting cases on behalf of his client, but could not get clearly on through the interruption of Mr Talley. Mr Mansfield—There is no necessity for you to go on any further. Mr Sleigh. The summons must be dismissed. There is no evidence whatever to show that he practises under the title of a physician or doctor of medicine. He (Mr Talley) will have to pay costs. Mr Talley then repacked the books in his enormous trunk, locked it, and paid £2 12s 6d, the costs, got assistance, and vanished with the portmanteau. The Murder at Chadwell-heath, ILFORD, Wednesday. This afternoon the inquest on the body of Amelia Blunt, who was murdered under circumstances of great atrocity on last Saturday morning, was resumed in the Sessions House adjoining Ilford Gaol, before Mr C. C. Lewis, coroner for the county of Essex. The case appeared to have created a great sensation in the district, and the court room was crowded by persons de sirous of obtaining a view of the prisoner and of hearing the evidence against him. Superintendent Howie had the management of the case for the Commissioner of Police. The prisoner, a large, heavy, morose looking man, was brought up and placed in the dock. He listened with a half contemptuous indifference to all the evidence. James Warren, a labourer, living at Dagenham, said that he was 7S years of age. He knew the deceased since she was a baby. She lived with him for the last 11 weeks as house keeper. She was a widow, about 44 years of age. She had been living with Francis Wane before she came to live with witness, She had lived with Waine about three years. On last Saturday morning witness left his cot tage at Chadwell-heath, about a quarter past ten o'clock to fetch some beer for the deceased while she was washing, He left her in the wash house at the end of the cottage. He returned within half an hour, and when he went in at the front door he called out "Milly, here is your beer, dear—come and have it.'' She mado him no answer. He went in doors, and sat down at the table. He then again called out to her, but hearing no answer he went into the wash house. She was resting with one arm on the copper, and the other on a sieve. He went up to her and said "hilly, why don't you give me an answer," but' she gave him none. He put his hands round her to lift her up, and he found his hands wet with blood. He said, "Oh, Milly, Milly, what have you done ?" but sho wade no answer. He lifted her up, but she fell, and so did he, she being heavy and he being weak. He got up and looked at her, and saw that she was a dead woman. He ran out and told Mr. Archer, and he then ran across the common to make an alarm, and he met his granddaughter, who said, " What have you done with your hands ?" They were smothered with blood. Several persons, and the police-constables were at once on the spot. Witness knew the prisoner all his life, and he knew the mother that bore him before she was married. Seven or eight weeks ago witness was at the White Horse public-house, and he saw the prisoner there. Deceased was there also, and she sat by the side of witness in the tap room. Coroner—What conversation passed ? _ _ _ Witness—The prisoner said, "hilly, I own myself in fault, and if you go with me out of doors I will tell you where you will find those clothes and things that I took away from you." Ile said, " I own myself in fault tor breaking up your home." He asked her to go out of doors along with him, but she said to witness, "I am afraid to go." She did go. however, but only went as far as the taproom window. She returned in a minute and sat down. Ho came in and sat down by the side of her and said, " Milly, is there a chance for you and me to come together again ?" She said, "No, there never will, Toddy." He was usually called Toddy. She said to him, "You had your chance to make me your wife if ou had used me well ; but you broke my home up, and now I will have no more to do with you," He replied, " Milly, you will have to die," to which she said, "Toddy, if I die you will have to die too.'' She jumped up and went home, and witness went home also. Witness heard him make no statement since, nor did he see him on the pre mises. Witness had a son John, aged 49. An intimacy had sprung up between him and deceased, and the banns were published at Dagenham Church on Sunday week. Coroner (to the pi is mer)—DJ you wish to ask the witness any question ? Prisoner (sullenly)—l do not want to ask him any ques tion. Francis Archer, the wife of a labourer living on Chadwell heath, said that on Saturday morning she was at a short distance from Warren's hous3 when her children came running to her and said, " Oh, come down ; Mr Warren has come, and something has happened at his house." She ran in the direction of the place and met Warren, who told her that Milly was dead, She wont into the little bakehouse or washhouse at the end of the cottage and saw deceased lying in a pool of blood, and quite dead. Witness knew prisoner ever since he was a boy. Deceased lived with him for three or four years. The prisoner said he did not want to ask any questions of the witness. Mr C. Fitch, landlord of the White Horse, Chadwell heath, said that he knew the deceased for three years. She was in the habit of charing at his house for three months — ever since she had been with old Mr Warren, The prisoner was in the habit of coming to the White Horse frequently, and he used to be there with the deceased. :Since deceased had been living with Warren witness had several times heard the prisoner and her quarrel. On two or three occa sions she got up and left the room when he came in, 'Wit ness several tires heard the prisoner threaten to kill her. He said that so often that he ceased to take particular notice of it. The prisoner threatened her 12 months ago. Coroner—Did you hear him threaten her recently ? Witness—lle said he would cut her throat about a month or six weeks ago ; but he was then the worse for liquor. Coroner—l did not ask you that. If a man says such a thing when drunk, he is responsible for it when sober. Did he make any other threat ? Witness—When she was living with the prisoner the lattor had threatened to knock her brains out. A fortnight ago I forbid the prisoner my house for making use of bad language and falling out with old Mr Warren about this woman. I was in the bar and heard him swearing at Mr Warren in the parlour. I went in and said, " Waino, you are like a dog in the manger ; you won't live with the woman yourself, and you won't let her live quiet with any one else." He swore at me, and said ho would punch my head. I told him to quit the house, and he did so. Coroner—Did you see him since ? Witness—On Saturday morning, about 5 minutes to 10. I saw him coming by Mr Moss's mills, about 400 yards from 'Warren's cottage, and he appeared to be going from Chadwell-heath towards his brother's house. His brother's house is a quarter of a mile from the cottage, I did not speak to him nor he to me. I heard of the murder about 10 minutes to eleven o'clock. My wife told me poor old Milly bad dropped down dead. I went to the cottage and saw her lying on her left side in a pool of blood. There was a great wound on the side of her neck, and I said, " Bless me, she has been murdered." I sent far a police constable. Coroner (to prisoner)—Do you want to ask the witness any questions P Prisoner—l do not. lie can say more if ho likes. He has been telling a parcel of lies, and h e can t e ll more o f th em . _ _ • Dr Robert A, BAmers said that on Saturday morning he was called to the deceased about half-past 11 o'clock. She was dead, but was still warm. He examined her and found three severe wounds on the aide of the neck. They were so deep that with the finger the vertebra) of the neck could be touched. Such wounds could not have been inflicted by her self. 'rho wounds were from the right to tha left, one was from the centre of the throat to the right aide behind the ear; another of them ran in an oblique direction towards the shoulder, the third seemed to have been a stab more than a cut. There was also a wound on the knuckle of the left thumb. All the organs of the body were healthy. The immediate cause of death was loss of blood from the severance of the blood vessels of the neck. The knife produced would most decidedly have caused such wounds. The knife in question had a sharp blade about six inches long, and was such as are usually used to kill pigs. Hair was found adhering to the handle. After some further evidence, which was occasionally con. tradicted by the prisoner, The Coroner asked him if he had anything to say. The prisonex shook his head. The Coroner then summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against Francis Waine." The Coroner then issued his warrant for the committal of the prisoner on the capital charge. THE MIDDLESBRO' STRIKE.—We are happy to say that the Middlesbro' turn-out is now at an end. The person whose conduot so deeply offended the workmen has resigned his situation, thus removing the matter in dispute. There is, therefore, every reason to expect that the men will at once resume work. The charge against the ten men found guilty of desertion has been withdrawn,—Leeds 71e- SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—Thepoliti3al prospect in America is confused and shifting in the extreme, but if we may assume that the Presidential contest will be go. verned, even at the eleventh hour, by the events of the war, we may conclude with almost equal pro bability that these events must be looked for exclue sively in Virginia. General Sh erman ' s success i n Georgia is already exhibiting that barrenness of re sults which is characteristic of Federal victories, and he has himself announced that for the present he contemplates no further operations. It is impro bable that Admiral Farragut has resigned himself to a similar inaction, but the mere occupation of the town of Mobile, even if it should be achieved, will not exert the requisite influence on the popular mind. In the Shenandoah Valley two armies, which for magnitude and efficiency might almost be matched with those of Georgia and Virginia, after confronting each other for a while, have just met in a conflict in which the Federals claim the victory. But it is from Petersburg, if from any quarter, that decisive intelligence may be antici pated. The partial success or confirmed failure of Gen. Grant's operations would act with immediate effect on the temper of the North, and the expects. tions of the Federals are heightened by the report that a great battle in those parts is actually immi nent. Recent information has revealed, with more clearness than formerly, the purpose of Gen. Grant in his late proceedings. After a fortnight of pro found inaction, he suddenly massed a heavy force on his extreme left and threw it across the Weldon ailroad, a few miles south of Petersburg. There he immediately intrenched himself, and though he has suffered some reverses and lost a certain portion of ground, he has never been dislodged from the position, or compelled to quit his hold on the line. With this exploit he has been apparently content, as if the possession of the reilroad on this point would sooner or later compel his adversary to come out of his intrenchments and venture an attack under certain disadvantages. The manoeuvre, in fact, somewhat resembled that of Sherman's at Atlanta, though it has not yet been productive of similar results. Sher man, by occupying the railroad between Atlanta and Macon, cut off the supplies on which the gar rison of Atlanta depended, and compelled General Hood to sally out with his whole force in the hope of dislodging him. But this hope was vain— Sherman held his ground against ail attack—and while Hood was thus expending his strength, a Federal corps, left in observation before Atlanta, marched in and occupied the empty city. At Peters burg none of these consequences have hitherto fol lowed. The supplies of the garrison have not been in• tercepted, and after the lapse of nearly a month, the " military " situation remained substantially un. changed. The important point to be now ascertained is the force of the stress which is thus put upon Petersburg and Richmond, for on this would depend the tactics of the Confederate commander. The railroad running due north from Weldon through Petersburg to Richmond is not the only line by which these towns can b 3 supplied. The Danvill e line enters them from the west , and itis also obvious to suppose that the rich crops of the Shenandoah Valley protected by the Confederate force under General Early would find their way down from the North. Still, the Weldon line is a most important one, for it connects Richmond and Petersburg with Wilmington and Charleston, and thus enables General Leo to draw munitions from those ports for the use of his army. At present this resource is not indeed lost, for the Weldon line is still open to the station at Stony Creek , about 20 miles south of Petersburg, and from that point supplies are brought up to the town under strong escorts of Confederate cavalry. Nevertheless, the inconve nience must be considerable, and though the Northern people seem to attach singularly little importance to Grant's position, there are not want ing indications of a different opinion on the part of General Lee. Not a word was said at Chicago or New York about the occupation of the Weldon line as constituting or prognosticating a Federal suc cess, and Grant's name was left almost without mention in electioneering speeches, But Lee has twice attacked the Federals with his usual vigour, though less than his usual success, and it seems to be anticipated that he will take the initiative once more. In this case Grant's strategy would certainly have been in some degree successful, but there are circumstances which require attention before the po sitions of the two armies can be properly appreci ated. Grant's army is strongly intrenched on the Weldon line. No sooner had the Federals seized the position than, as described by an observer on the spot, they " worked like beavers" to protect themselves against attack, and they have since had a month's time to strengthen these defences. If, then, Gen. Lee becomes the assailant, he may run the risk of fighting under those disadvantages which have so often proved fatal in the campaigns of this war. " Whoever attacks," said Sherman, at Atlanta, " is beaten." But it is not absolutely necessary that Lee should attack in this fashion. Grant in wheel ing round Petersburg has described about a third of a circle's circumference, from a point in the north east to a point due south. But the north-eastern point is one of great importance to him, for it is on the James River, by which supplies reach him easily, and across which by means t f pontoons he can at any time throw his whole army and menace Rich mond instead of Petersburg. It was at this point that the right of his army was stationed, a con eiderable force being also encamped on the northern side of the river, but his left, under these circum stances, did not rea within five or six miles of the Weldon Railroad. For the sake of occupying this railroad, he massed his army, as we have said, on his left—that is to say, he withdrew the troops from the north side of the James, and then pushed his left, thus heavily reinforced, on to the Weldon line. He did not, however, withdraw his right from City Point, and therefore, by extending his left so far, he proportionately lengthened his whole line insomuch that his army, which was formerly stretched over a position of 12 miles in length, now covers a line of 18 miles. That such an extension could have been effected without weakening the line at some point or other is hardly to be supposed, and the oppor tunity would not be lost on so able a commander as Cteneral Lee. It is obvious that he may leave Grant's intrenchments untouched, and content himself with piercing the Federal line at some point betsceen its two extremities. If such an attack were successfully executed, Grant would find him self with his army cut in two, and his communicae tion with the James River intercepted. Perhaps, also, the notorious straits of the Federial armies at this moment may induce General Lee to turn the occasion to advantage. Sherman and Grant make no secret of their losses or of the urgency of their needs, and the draught, it seems, is to be enforced in pursuance of their reiterated demands. The latest advises, too, represent Sherman as on the move to reinforce Great. The Confederate commander may prefer, therefore, to attack his adversary before he is reinforced, and to profit by the weakness which has been openly confessed. O t herwise it was appae rently his best policy to leave Grant unmolested, and to allow him to retreat at his own time with the discredit of failure when the visitations of the season rendered his position untenable. If Grant has now compelled his antagonist to move, it is his first success in the campaign, and the only wonder is why he did not try the experiment, as lie might have done, before he had wasted an army in efforts which were hopeless. What events may be now impending it is impossible to predict, but it is at this point that the interest of the war is concen trated for the present. POST.—We notice with regret the reappearance in the columns of the local journals of those out rages upon the persons and property of others which are usually headed " desperate poach ing affrays." That the preservation of game, espe cially upon a very extensive sc Ile, has its draw backs as well as its advantages no one will deny who is really conversant with all the ins and outs of a confessedly difficult problem; But the real evils of high preserving lie in a ve r y different direction from those R hick form the stock.in-trade of a certain class of s e ntimentalists, who are not without their mouthpieces even in the Legislature, As between tenant and landlord, there is often a good deal of real hardship inflicted, for the most unintentionally, in getting up a " good head of game." Where lands are avowedly let at a " game rent" there is, of course, no ground for complaint. Where they are not, the matter frequently resolves itself into a direct conflict of testimony between the tenant and the keeper, each strongly prepossessed in favour of his own view of the case, and tolerably confident in his own assertions. Sometimes, there is no doubt, the fare tner hardly gets fair play, and suffers serious losses in a bad year by damage which, even it be not dis puted, it is next to impossible to estimate accu rately. In the great game preserving districts the question is better understood, and therefore more easily arranged. But it is not so everywhere, and real hardships are often suffered upon a property where a change of system takes place, and a squire who cared for nothing but the hounds is suc ceeded by a son who has a decided penchant for battues, or, still more so, by a man who has no taste for shooting himself, and lets his covers and stubble fields to some city magnate, whose object is to do the greatest possible amount of execution in the shortest time. As, however, between the preserver of game and the poacher the case stands very dif ferently. Of course we are all familiar with th e conventional type of the latter interesting indivi dual, as he appears in the pages of the cheap press, and even in the works of some authors who, like Mr Kingsley, ought to know better. But the real Simon Pure differs widely from his sentimental re production. Far from being a struggling -,:11: the capture of au occasional hare among his " 7n „. cabbages, he is, in nine cases out of ten, either the ii ptofessional bandit of his vicinity or a well'P elu operative from a neighbouring town. Of the fo rmer class there is really little to be said. Unwiliiug to work, but not ashamed to beg or steal, they bell to a clan which is always in trouble. They have just as great a penchant for the farmer's hen ro ost,, as they have for the squire's hares and pheasant!, and will take whichever are to be obtained a Ito least trouble and least risk to themselves. Tu e i are men almost invariably well known, both to the local police and to the officers of the county gaol. la which they spend a considerable part of their leisur3 time. Now and then they plan a regular expeditio n, with a few others of the same kidney. But is general they are not gregarious in their habits, an d prefer poaching when they can, alone and upon the sly, to coming across men by every one of who m ' they are well known, and, if not captured on the . spot, are certain to be marked down within the ne at twenty-tour hours. They are a class with whom! . troublesome and in some respects even dangerous ae they are, the law is quite competent to deal, an d with whom poaching is merely an alternative fo r c some other unlawful pursuit in which they wou ld be otherwise engaged. The real disturbers of the public peace are the organised gangs which exist la all great towns for the especial purpose of plan, dering the neighbouring covers, and which do not necessarily draw all their recruits from those who are known to the police under the general n one clature of the " dangerous classes." These ra . ey,' there is no question, would, many of them, shrin' t from the idea of theft or . of highway robbery, bu t have no scruples on the score of a moonlight exPe rn dition for sweeping the covers of any large pro 1 prietor, or even of grossly maltreating those whos e duty it is to protect their masters' property Their assailants are not unfreqnently men in the receipt of excellent wages, who go out in most in stances for a lark, and, perhaps, occasionally te, gratify some personal spite against a n individual game preserver or gamekeeper. The ruffians who are now in custody for well-nigh beating to death two of Lord Derby's keepers were miners froth St. Helen's, who, after having spent a wet night" at the public-house, sallied forth to plunder and to maltreat any one who opposed thencl , In many instances their cupidity is stimulated by a, promise on the part of some notorious receiver 01 stolen goods to dispose of their ill-gotten booty e t a good price. In such cases the expedition is COo' ducted on a more business-like footing. Scouts are previously told off. It is arranged beforehand who are to fight and who to run, while a light cart, well horsed and judiciously posted, is in readiness to receive and carry off the spoil. The gang them' selves are under some sort of rude discipline, are infinitely better armed than the keepers, are troubled with no scruples about using their guns at a pinch, and, having come from a distant locality,. are, with few exceptions, not easily recognised, it not taken in flagrante delicto. Such expeditions 85 these are, accordingly, entirely removed from the conditions which can entitle those who take part in them to take shelter under the plea of extenuat' ing circumstances. They are simply freebootiog raids, carried on in defiance of the law, and with the premeditated intent of resisting to the utter: most if any opposition is offered. So general is this evil, and so serious are the effects of it, that it is becnming quite worth while to consider whether the old English legal doctrines with regard toier ci naturce be not susceptible of important modifiea" Violas, and whether game should not be at once wade property, and the theft of it treated like any other theft. This, and such a trespass act as it would he necessary to pass were the present ga me loc e abolished, for the protection of prop e rty, wo uld, to all probability, be found even a more efficient check upon the proceedings of the evil disposed than We at present possess. Considering that, upon a rough estimate, every pheasant which is killed costs it s owner at least 10s. per head, and often a much larger sum, while they are in many cases literally as tame as chickens, there can be no great hardsh;P in securing the property in them to those at whole expense they have been reared. With gratin' game the case is rather more difficult. But even, hares and rabbits are not in the habit straying far from the covers in which they f were bred, and are fed either at the expense their owner or of the cultivators of the adjoin" ing lands. The latter, accordingly, are the 00 1 9 . 1 other parties to be considered in the matter; the question is one which ceases to concern that portion of the public to which they cannot by all possibility belong. It is high time that the whol e question should be put upon a satisfactory footing' The idea that there is no particular crime in poach' ing already obtains too widely, and is unhappily fostered by many who ought to know better, Were the egis of the law removed from game-preserving: as such, and the poacher treated as a simple thiell or, if he injured his captors, as guilty of an aggre; vated assault, the temptation would be remove d which romance and a love of adventure have thrown around what, after all, is, like smuggling, only a nefarious trade. COUNTRY MARKETS. MONMOUTH—TUESDAY. The weather has been moderately favourable during fi la last two or three days, and a week of such weather will en' able the farmers to secure all the corn yet out, The loco: markets have been fairly attended by both buyers all sellers during the last six or seven d a y s , a lth oug h then was not much business done, at about former quotatioolt• The average quotations are as follows : loa Wheat, white 5s 3d to 5s 9d 8ar1ey...... 3s 4d to 3s - nd Ditto red.....0s Od to Os Od Oats 2s 4d to 3 8 v MARKET HARBOROUGH-TUESDAY. About the usual quantity of wheat, which met With 1 1, slow inquiry at prices similar to last week. Barley oar! - freely to hand, but not much in request. Oats as of lat e ' —White wheat, 44s to 48s ; red, 39s to 43s per 36 stone' Malting barley at 31s to 34s per qr.; grinding, 26s to 30 0 per 30 at, Oats, old, 25s to 27 5; new , 20 s t o 25s per ~ st.; beans, 36s to 42s per qr. LYNN-TUESDAY. At to •day's market the supply of wheat was smalle r ' with a good attendance of growers. The trade was dul l ' and samples is per qr cheaper. Barley met a slow sail and both grinding and malting 6d to is lower. Beans an oats is cheaper. White wheat 44s to 46s f Barley ..36s to 31 0 Rcd .. 4 os to 42 s I ,G r i n di ng • • ~., 0 9s to 31° Beans .40s to 42s I Oats Old ... 36s to 37s I Pe as Averages --Wheats, 40s 7d—barley, 31s :. ; —2 2 i t ) t o o es --21156: ° 408 Od. HULL-TUESDAY. - - At our market to-day there was a short supply of lish wheat, and a fair business w as d one , at a s li g ht '7 O cline on the quotations of last we e k. F ore i gn w h ea t f 4 • per qr less money, and trade inactive. Barley, is cheaper. Oats, new eorts, in better supply, and about lot! eheaper. Beans and peas sold steadily at barely prevfoll" rates. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE—TUESDAY. At our corn market to-day the supply of wheat vi t ‘ g moderate, and sold at no advance on former rates. Bares ley and oats were a slo w sa l e a t a s li g h t d ec li ne. Th ere Vi little doing in beans, peas, or malt. CAPTURE OF AN EAGLE AT SEA.—A few day ° ago an eagle alighted on the mast of a fishing boat , about 15 miles at sea, off Filey. A boy named Scal e° , climbed up the mast, but when near the bird it flew away' but no sooner did the boy commence descendi ng than 1 1 again alighted. The boy climbed up again, a n d cau ght !, by the leg. The eagle resisted, and so squeezed the boy hand with its free claw as to make it bleed freely. Scale t/ f however, managed to hold on with his legs, while 11° stretched up his free arm and caught the bird by the lie cic° and after some resistance killed it, and came down to the deck with his prize. He subsequently sold the eagle, was very thin in flesh, but fine in plumage, to a bird' stuffer. It was about two feet long, and a little more 00 two feet from tip to tip of the wing. Births. If GLYN.—On the 24th inst., at 51, Berk e l e y square, r 0 Henry Glynn, of a son. HART.—On the 27th inst., at Wanstead, the wife of Lev3 ola Hart, Esq., of a son. STRONG.- On the 27th inst., at Woking, th e w if e o f 1 ' I. Strong, of twin sons. WESTON.—On the 23d inst., at Annanhill House, al Kilmarnock, the wife of Lieut.-C o l one l G ou ld West .° of a son. Marriages. PAKENHAM.—On the 15th inst., at St. George's, Ham p e r . square, Captain Hamilt on P a k en h am, late 2d Life ur„,„ to Gwerydd Frances, eld es t d aug h ter of Colonel the " R. Rowley, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs. Rowley. BENWELL—TOTTENHAM.-0 11 the 22d inst., at St. gaiJocls Cheltenham, Frederick Willi am Benwell, Esq., I ,p' Regt., to Marian Frances, daughter of Cornwallis tenham, Esq., of Cheltenham. Deaths. BROWN.—On the 26th inst., at Lonformacus, David Wad law Brown, Esq., of Longformacus, Berwickshir e. Glugor, Penang, East Indies. tf BULLEY. -,-On the 25th inst., a t H o ll y M oun t, Lyn.- --r° John Blagrove Bailey, Esq., aged 59. Sit' EDMONSTONE.— On the 24th i ns t., a t Effi ng ham ' George Frederick Edmonstone, K.C,8,, aged 5 1 . n i li 0 FENNING.—On the 27th in s t., at Epsom, Mr. 8 1 . 15 e Fenning, of 5, Poultry. tic° HOLDSWORTII.—On the 27th i ns t. at Maisonnette, ry Gabriel. Devonshire, Maria, widow of the late 11°3 Holdsworth, Esq., of Dartmouth, aged 95. WADDINGTON.—On the 28th i n st., at 290, Es sel4c eif 4 Islington, James Waddington, Beg., of Coleman " city, aged 62, London: Printed and Prblished by WILLIAM AND of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TILE SUN Office No* Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy , "in the ccaut/